Meet Brigadier General Hailu Gonfa: ESAT News analysis on OLF & Ethiopian defence force
News, Popular Friday, December 30th, 2011
Meet Brigadier General Hailu Gonfa – Oromo Liberation Front: ESAT News analysis on OLF and Ethiopian defense force.

Meet Brigadier General Hailu Gonfa – Oromo Liberation Front: ESAT News analysis on OLF and Ethiopian defense force.

ESAT, Ethiopian Satellite Television interviewed Gebremedhin Araya Former TPLF finance head.

American Journalist Jason McLure worked in Ethiopia as a foreign correspondent for Bloomberg from 2007 to 2010. McLure left Ethiopia on his own volition after his difficult assignment in Ethiopia, where he, along was a translator, was even detained by security agents in Mekele for two days.

ESAT is the first independent Ethiopian satellite service tasked to produce accurate and balanced news and information, as well as other entertainment, sports and cultural programming created for and by Ethiopians.

My friend Kirubeal’s constant nagging, Abebe’s timely revelations (I am still not over ‘Mamo kilo in Arat Kilo’), Professors Al’s relentless tickle of my discarded conscience, my dear hero’s ECADF’s energetic enthusiasm and Ethiopian Review’s smart ‘Policy Research’ papers was what kept me from going into deep freeze.

When the Woyane Junta Melse Zenawi mocks Ethiopian people and country to cover-up his crimes is not enough the Derg junta Mengistu H. Mariam showed up to add more insult.

Is Ethiopia more dependent on international charity today than a year ago? More press freedom today than five years ago? More human rights violations?

One of these Ethiopian politicians who took the brunt of Bereket’s sharp criticism was Dr. Berhanu Nega, Chairman of Ginbot 7 Movement.

In my capacity as the World Bank Group’s first and only Senior Advisor on Racial Equality (SARE), I had the privilege of representing this multilateral agency in numerous forums around the globe.

Ethiopian journalists are continuously forced to flee the country, as the government labels those critical of it as messengers of terrorism, usually a precursor to arrest, detention or even death.
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